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HENRY GASPAR, OF NEIV ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

COIN-CONTROLLED TU RNSTILE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 399,972, dated March 19, 1889.

Y Application filed January 30, 1888. Serial No. 262,450. (No model.)

To LIZ whom, t may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY GASPAR, a citizen of the United States, residing atNew Orleans, in the parish of Orleans and State of Louisiana, havein vented certain new and useful Improvements in a Coin-Controlled Turnstile; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and eXact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the saine.

My invention has relation toV improvements in acoin-cont-rolled turnstile; and the novelty consists in the peculiar combination and adaptation of the various parts for service, as will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

The object of my invention is to provide a device of the class above named to be used in connection with ferry and car stations or car-doors and the like, where fares are collected, to effect an entrance by dropping a coin in a suitable receptacle, rendering it unnecessary to employ attendants for receiving the same.

Th ein vention will be very readily understood from the following description and claims, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a front elevation of the device with the part covering the operating mechanism reversed and placed to one side. Fig. 2 is a vertical section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3 3 of Fig. l. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the turnstilc removed from the device.

The opening forming the passage-way for passengers is normally closed by a turnstilc formed of a vertical shaft, B, carrying radial doors A, preferably four in number. This shaft is journaled in bearings in the framework G, and at its upper end carries a ratchetwheel, (l, engaged by a pawl or dog, D, pivoted on the frame G so that the stile can turn in but one direction.

In the casing G ,at one side of the passageway, is arranged a sliding bolt, F, presenting a beveled face in the path of the doors A and held normally in a projected position by a spring, K. The other end of the bolt is provided with a head or enlargement, M, projecting into a passage, L', for a purpose that will presently appear. Opposite and in line with the head M is a bearing-plate or lug, I-I, secured to a vertical sliding frame, G, projecting into the passage-way closed by the doors A, and in the path thereof next in order to the bolt F. This frame G runs on frictionrollers a, and is maintain ed in the projected position and guided by spring-surrounded rods I, extending into the main frame-work G. Pivoted to a lined part of the frame-work is a plate, M, with a nger proj ecting in the path of the doors A and maintained in normal position by a spring, O. This plate has an eX- tension, M2, which in normal position lies across the passage L below the head M and the plate or lug II.

The passage L connects with a coin-receiving slot, E, on the exterior of the device, and is contracted adjacent to the head M and lug II, so that the coin will be positively guided in an upright position until it rests on the extension M2 and between the said head M and lug I-I, the latter being at such. a distance apart as to just receive between and in contact with them a coin, N, of the denomination designed to operate the device, and n`o other. The passage L leads to a receptacle, L, for .the coins.

In operation a passenger places, a proper coin in the slot E, whence it falls to the extension Mgg/nd between and in contact with the head M and lug H. If the doors be now moved oli1A their axis, one of them will come in contact with the beveledface of the bolt F, and, riding over it, will force it inward. The bolt F being in contact with the coin and the latter with the lug1 II on the frame G, the said frame will be moved with the bolt and retracted within the frame-work G', leaving the door free to be moved through the passage-way. Then the door has passed the bolt F, the latter immediately returns to its normaposition; but, the door being then opposite the end of the frame G, the latter is prevented from being projected. As the door moves out-ward it contacts with the arm of the plate M and moves the latter on its pivot, carrying its extension M2 from under the coin N ,and permitting the latter to drop before the door has passed and released the frame G. As the door progresses the parts all return to IOO l coin is dropped into the device.

Having described 1nyinvention,what I claim 1sl. The combination,with the turnstile, of a sliding boltand a sliding frame in the path of the same, the frame having a lug in the line of travel of the bolt and at a distance therefrom sufficient to receive a coin, and a supporting-plate for the coin below the said bolt and the lug, and having an arm projecting in the path of the turnstile, substantially as specified.

2. The combination, with the turnstile provided with a pawl and ratchet, as described, of a sliding spring-actuated bolt having a beveled face in the path of the turnstile, a spring-actuated frame projecting into the path of the turnstile and provided with a lug ata distance from and in the line of travel of the bolt, a coin guide or passage leading between said bolt and the lug, and a pivoted spring-actuated coin-supporting plate below the bolt and the lug and provided with an arm in the path of the door, substantially as described.

Y In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

HENRY GASPAR. Witnesses:

ADOLPHE GRossMAN, MARTIN SAOHs. 

